Research Catalog

Title

Adorno and critical theory / Hauke Brunkhorst.

Author

Brunkhorst, Hauke.

Publication

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 1999.

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Details

Description

vi, 194 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Brunkhorst not only emphasizes the well-known links between Adorno and the dialectical thinking of Hegel and Marx, but also the connection between Adorno and Kant.

Series Statement

Political philosophy now

Uniform Title

Political philosophy now.

Subject

• Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
• Critical theory

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-187) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Between Frankfurt and New York -- 1. A much loved child -- 2. The dialectic of the medium -- 3. Siegfried Kracauer and the Kantian sabbath -- 4. 'By the way, both are communists' -- 5. Lukacs and critical theory -- 6. Benjamin and the dialectic of progress -- 7. Truth is set by Schonberg -- 8. Exile is not an adventure -- 9. Cleared ruins: from re-education to positivism debate -- 10. Advocate of the non-identical -- 11. An ethic of damaged life -- 12. Modernism versus modernity -- 2. Enlightenment of Rationality: Critical Remarks on Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment -- 1. Enlightenment as critique -- 2. Enlightenment of enlightenment -- 3. History of the origin of subjectivity -- 3. Adorno, Heidegger and Post-Analytical Philosophy -- 1. Differing narratives -- 2. Adorno and postmodernism against Heidegger's anti-modernism -- 3. Adorno and post-empiricism against 'the myth of the framework' -- 4. Adorno, Horkheimer and pragmatism against philosophy -- 5. Rational identity and negative dialectics -- 4. Freedom, Critique and Transgression in Adorno's Theory of Aesthetic Modernism -- 1. Experimental freedom -- 2. Farewell to theory -- 3. The time for criticism -- 4. Critique of culture by art.

ISBN

• 0708315291
• 0708315283 (pbk.)

LCCN

00300357 ^

OCLC

• 40645415
• SCSB-9953877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library